Is God evil?

You would think that with all the arguments for and against the existence of God, that there would not be anything new to say. Professor Stephen Law provides a new wrinkle by saying that there is as much evidence for God being evil as there is for God being good. He readily concedes that the argument for an evil God is absurd, but no more so than the argument for a good God.

The video is kind of long so let me state some of the highlights. Explaining the existence of good if God is evil is the same as explaining the existence of evil if God is good. An evil God would provide good and distribute it unevenly so people would be envious and get into fights and have wars. One thing that Law does not talk about is the existence of death, which is of course easily explainable if God is evil. Law provides a nice explanation for why there are so many religions. The evil God, posing as a good God, caused Jesus to rise and had God dictate the Koran to Muhammed, so that the two different groups of followers would fight against each other.